Reviews

“This Paramount feature by Cecil B. DeMille isn’t a great feature, but it’s a good market product. Mr. DeMille is too obvious a workman to touch the high points of the imagination. What he has done is to preach a good everyday sermon in story form.”

– The Weekly Variety, April 30, 1920

Letters From Regional Theater Owners

“A perfect picture, lavishly staged, and pretty gowns adorn the stars. A picture that you can faithfully recommend to your patrons.”

Artist Comment

“My brother Bill’s story Why Change Your Wife? was about an exceedingly prim and proper wife, ‘whose virtues are her only vices,’ and whose efforts to impose her tastes and perfectionism upon her husband cause her to lose him, until at last she learns that being virtuous does not mean being dowdy.”

– Cecil B. DeMille, Autobiography

Figures

Why Change Your Wife? cost $129,349.31 and grossed $1,016,245.87.(These figures have not been adjusted for inflation nor do they include the considerable profits realized from reissues, television syndication, and home entertainment formats.)